Nuala pell biography samples
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No. &#;An Uncommon Man: The Life & Times of Senator Claiborne Pell&#;
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Published in by University Press of New England.
The opening of &#;An Uncommon Man&#;:
Prologue: A Cold Winter Day
Dawn had barely broken when the crowd began to build outside Trinity Episcopal Church. A frigid wind blew and snow frosted the Newport, Rhode Island, ground. Police had restricted vehicular traffic to allow passage of the motorcade carrying a former president, the vice president-elect, and dozens of U.S. senators, representatives and other dignitaries who would be arriving. Men in sunglasses with bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the church grounds, where flags flew at half-mast.
It was Jan. 5, , the day of Senator Claiborne deBorda Pell&#;s funeral.
Some of those waiting to get inside Trinity Church were members of Newport society, to which Pell and Nuala, his wife of 64 years, had belong
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Julia Lorillard Wampage Pell of Middletown, Rhode Island was born in Washington, D.C. on May 9, Her parents were Senator Claiborne Pell and Nuala Pell of Newport, who were influential in their examples of community service and work toward the public good. Julia was educated at the Potomac and Madeira Schools in Virginia and graduated from Montesano, Gstaad, Switzerland. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rhode Island. She served on the boards of the Newport Art Museum, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Potter League for Animals. Julia was a civil rights advocate and passionate about improving the lives of the disenfranchised, the oppressed, and those less fortunate. She was an outspoken advocate encouraging diversity at a time when there was little consideration of equity among people. Julia also served as president of the board and as a lobbyist for the Rhode Island Alliance for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights. She was a founding member of Equit
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AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of medlem av senat Claiborne Pell
The authorized biography of Claiborne deBorda Pell
Publication in October
With 36 years in the U.S. Senate (16th longest ever) and a long list of legislative accomplishments that included the Pell Grant college-assistance program, establishment of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, fast-speed passenger rail service, and a ban on nuclear testing on the ocean floor, the late Claiborne Pell had few equals. But he was much more than that -- a udda and colorful man born into great wealth who spent most of his life in service to the people, a true example of noblesse oblige. Pell was a politician of unfailing artighet, even during contentious times, a skilled legislator who worked both sides of the aisle with dignity and grace -- imagine that today, in the Joe Wilson/Glenn Beck era. AN UNCOMMON MAN, bygd G. Wayne Miller with the cooperation of the Pell family, is the first and only book about hi